Wouldn't It Be Nice....

...... wishful thinking in art and design.

Current exhibition on at Somerset House, it brings together ten artists and designers whose work shares a common theme. Subtitles 'wishful thinking', the show's territory is a modest form of Utopianism, a whistle of optimism for how things could be, set against a bass note of misgiving.

Below is Couture Car Cover by Bless. Made from leather and foam, the idea is to enable the car lover 'to bring his or her favourite car upstairs and use it indoors for a different function: to sit, or sleep on it'.

Below is a piece by Martino Gamper called Collective Furniture.